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Transport in the two-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model: Lessons from weak coupling

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

T.G. Kiely
E.J. Mueller

Abstract

We use quantum kinetic theory to calculate the thermoelectric transport properties of the two-dimensional single-band Fermi-Hubbard model in the weak coupling limit. For generic filling, we find that the high-temperature limiting behaviors of the electrical (∼T) and thermal (∼T2) resistivities persist down to temperatures of order the hopping matrix element T∼t, almost an order of magnitude below the bandwidth. At half filling, perfect nesting leads to anomalous low-temperature scattering and nearly T-linear electrical resistivity at all temperatures. We hypothesize that the T-linear resistivity observed in recent cold atom experiments is continuously connected to this weak coupling physics and suggest avenues for experimental verification. We find a number of other novel thermoelectric results, such as a low-temperature Wiedemann-Franz law with Lorenz coefficient 5π2/36. © 2021 American Physical Society.

Date Published

Journal

Physical Review B

Volume

104

Issue

16

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85118752798&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevB.104.165143&partnerID=40&md5=8ddcf5bd13dba13636408320ee2e4b94

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevB.104.165143

Funding Source

PHY-1806357
PHY-2110250

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